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Holistic Quality of Life Assessment-How?

May 3, 2013

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Geriatric care managers and aging professionals who want to advance the holistic quality of life for their clients can make a measurable, long lasting impact on overall health and well being if they zero in on quality of life. An articled in the The Advanced Journal of Nursing found that choice, privacy and a sense of identity made all the difference in the quality of life of residents living in residential care. This showed, according to lead author ” the importance of providing a holistic, person-centered approach that goes beyond satisfying the technical and procedural aspects of care” Finding activities that help elders grow and nurture their emotional, intellectual, physical, and/or spiritual quality of life can help to nurture an older persons whole life and bring back joy. For example, look at this you tube on an older woman who reconnected with art, which is her talent and spirituality and younger people plus her family, through a quality of life assessment.

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Professionals Mediating Fighting and Feuding at the End of Life-

April 15, 2013

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May is National Geriatric Care Manager’s Month I will be speaking at the 29th annual Conference of the National Association of Professional Care Manager’s in Philadelphia on Friday April 19th. I will cover the thorny topic, The GCM as the Accidental Mediator: Fretting and Fighting or Feuding: Intergenerational Conflict in the Adult Family at End of Life. If you are interested in attending and learning more you can still register and attend the conference. . If you are considering this growing profession, I wrote the textbook Handbook of Geriatric Care Management,that is now out in it’s 3rd edition. If you think of opening a GCM agency, I just published the first manual on how to operate a geriatric care management agency My Geriatric Care Management Operations Manual. 

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How Do You Do A Quality Of Life Assessment?

April 4, 2013

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How do You Craft a Care plan for a Dual Assessment

March 14, 2013

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Solve Adult Sibling Problems Cathy Cress on WHBC Radio Tomorrow

February 10, 2013

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Tomorrow morning I will be on radio show Wriggling in the Middle , 8 AM EST ,speaking with Dr. Merle Griff and DeLores Pressley Wriggling In The Middle hosts  on how adult sibling relationships affect the caregiving process in the aging family. This is especially important when an older person needs care or home modification.

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Radio- Wriggling In The Middle

News Talk 1480

WHBC Radio in Canton, OH.

the show is broadcasted live from WHBC.

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